Show I Money Turned to Dust Chicago Chronicle The money counters in the United I States treasury were startled one da dab day I b by the appearance of a remarkable e i looking fat man who entered the department de det I t and told a strange tale He Hehe H HI I said he was an Ohio tanner farmer and did not notI no noI t I It I believe In banks and so 50 had buried burIe his 9 I t money m in the ground for Cor safe keeping He had dug it up and ad was AS horrified to t o find that it il was sk slowly turning to dust as notes will when hen long buried n he gathered red the disintegrated money into an old pillow case cas hound Bound It around his waist hen beneath th his hi s I clothes and started for Washington He traveled part or of the way on horse horseback I back part of the thc way a on an Ohio river rive t steamboat and part o of the way ay was by t train rain During the journey he never I once took ore off the pillow ca case He even eve n slept with it on en The of the th e treasury department found It difficult i to make him part with it He did not no t want waitt to go with a clerk to a hotel for fo r fear the clerk derk might rob him but as i iwas it rt t was manifestly Impo impossible for him to t 0 disrobe in the office he be had finally t to o submit They got th the money at last and the th e condition of oC it was so bad that Mrs Leonard an expert had to be called to decipher it So great was s her skill that tha t the farmer lost lo t only a fe few hundred bundred dot dol II lava Jars out of |